URBANISM & DESIGNWinner of the Urbanist Bracket Challenge
The Atlantic Cities
Now that the Unpaid Pro Basketball Championship is out of the way, we can finally get to the competition that has consumed much of my desktop for the last month: the Urbanist Toolkit Bracket Challenge of 2013.

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Blogosphere: Lessons from Two Transit Cities for Seattle
GMF Urban Current
Tony Mazzella is Strategic Advisor at the City of Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT). Tony recently visited Munich and Zurich to study how each city has prioritized surface-running transit-mainly by implementing transit-only lanes and traffic signal priority at intersections- over general-purpose traffic...

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Blogosphere: Strong Support for Transport Nationwide
T4 America
During a federal election season that saw the presidential candidates making only the barest mention of our teetering system for funding transportation infrastructure, local voters took transit funding into their own hands in more than two-dozen locales Tuesday...

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Blogosphere: Carpool Rule for Manhattan Drivers
Streetsblog
After a morning and afternoon when car traffic completely clogged NYC streets and river crossings, Mayor Bloomberg announced new restrictions for drivers entering Manhattan via bridges and tunnels on Thursday and Friday. On most crossings, only cars with three or more people will be allowed to enter Manhattan...

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Calgary: City Opens Two LRT Stations
Railway Age
Calgary residents in the city's northeast section gained direct access to the two new light rail transit stops on the C-Train 202 line Monday, with station openings at Saddletowne and Martindale...

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National: White House Finalizes 54.5 MPG Standard
Transportation Nation
Cars and light trucks will have to deliver an average of 54.5 miles per gallon by…

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California: Supreme Court Will Hear Expo Line Challenge
LA.Streetsblog
The California State Supreme Court will hear the case of Neighbors for Smart Rail (NFSR), a coalition of Westside homeowners, community groups and businesses, against Phase II of the Expo Line. NFSR alleges that the environmental documents for the line were improperly compared because it based traffic on future projections instead of the current status on the street....

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Salt Lake City: Lawmakers to Study LRT in Switzerland
Salt Lake Tribune
Four Utah legislators and five officials of the Utah Transit Authority just returned from a five-day trip to Switzerland to learn about light-rail transportation to and around ski resorts...

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Houston: Texas HSR Gains Momentum
Impact News
Plans for a high-speed rail line connecting Houston with the Dallas-Fort…

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Blogosphere: Picture Gallery - Early Car Crashes
Laughing Squid
The Boston Public Library boasts a collection of nearly 40,000 photos taken by Boston Herald-Traveler photographer Leslie Jones between 1917 and 1956-including this set of nearly 1000 auto accident photos taken in the Boston area..